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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Derren" data-source="post: 7756647" data-attributes="member: 2518">At best this is a half truth, but it veers dangerously close into politics anyway. If you want to discuss this do it over PM.Have you for example looked at 7th Sea? Or Warhammer Fantasy? Pretty much all nations are a cliché caricature of the nation that inspired them. Even religion is not safe, just look what D&D (or many animes like NGE) has done with Christian mythology like angels and the devil. A large part of the multiverse is a twisted version from the Divine Comedy (although whild its highly debatable if that counts as an actual religious text, it still is closely related). If any other religion would have been used that way you can bet there would be complains about it.It continues outside of RPGs, too. For example look at all the "Oktoberfest" re-enactments around the world (it doesn't even have to be October).It is not a bad thing. Without it there would be no fantasy and hardly any science fiction books out there. The bad thing is when people apply a double standard of declaring their culture untouchable except in the most positive way (and they alone decide on if the criteria is fulfilled based on their mood and if they want to shut down a discussion or product or not), but are happily appropriating whatever they feel like from others with flimsy "they have power" excuses if they even notice it at all.Cultures have influenced each other since the beginning of mankind in every region of earth. Its practically impossible that they not to, especially considering how networked the world is now. People should accept it instead of using the threat of cultural appropriation in order to gain power.</blockquote>

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